Boston Red Sox vs Detroit Tigers
September 14, 1987 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on September 14, 1987 at Tiger Stadium. The Detroit Tigers defeated the Boston Red Sox and the box score is "ready to surrender its truth to the knowing eye."

"The box score is the catechism of baseball, ready to surrender its truth to the knowing eye." - Author Stanley Cohen in The Man in the Crowd (1981)
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Boston Red Sox 0, Detroit Tigers 3

Boston Red Sox ab   r   h rbi
Burks cf 5 0 3 0
Barrett 2b 4 0 2 0
Boggs 3b 1 0 0 0
Greenwell rf 4 0 0 0
Evans 1b 3 0 0 0
Rice lf 3 0 0 0
Horn dh 4 0 1 0
Owen ss 4 0 2 0
Marzano c 2 0 0 0
  Benzinger ph 1 0 1 0
Clemens p 0 0 0 0
  Schiraldi p 0 0 0 0
Totals 31 0 9 0
Detroit Tigers ab   r   h rbi
Whitaker 2b 4 0 2 0
Madlock dh 3 0 0 1
  Walewander pr,dh 0 1 0 0
Gibson lf 2 0 0 1
Trammell ss 4 0 3 1
Evans 1b 4 0 0 0
Nokes c 3 0 0 0
Lemon cf 4 0 0 0
Lusader rf 3 1 1 0
Brookens 3b 2 1 1 0
Alexander p 0 0 0 0
  Henneman p 0 0 0 0
Totals 29 3 7 3
Boston 000 000 000090
Detroit 000 010 20x370
  Boston Red Sox IP H R ER BB SO
Clemens  L (16-9) 6.2 7 3 3 4 4
  Schiraldi   1.1 0 0 0 0 2
Totals
8.0
7
3
3
4
6
  Detroit Tigers IP H R ER BB SO
Alexander  W (6-0) 7.0 8 0 0 4 4
  Henneman  SV (5) 2.0 1 0 0 1 0
Totals
9.0
9
0
0
5
4

  E–None.  DP–Detroit 1.  2B–Boston Burks (27,off Alexander), Detroit Trammell (26,off Clemens).  SH–Marzano (2,off Alexander); Brookens (7,off Clemens).  SF–Gibson (4,off Clemens).  SB–Burks (23,2nd base off Alexander/Nokes).  CS–Owen (8,2nd base by Alexander/Nokes).  U-HP–John Shulock, 1B–Ken Kaiser, 2B–Jim McKean, 3B–Tim McClelland.  T–3:01.  A–23,287.
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